Touchscreens suck but with a decent stylus you can make do for very simple things. It's like having a pen that's always low on ink and only one page visible at a time.
Onenote on a tablet with an active stylus like a Wacom w/ an erase function is actually quite powerful once you get used to it. You can also mix photos of the whiteboard in with your scribbles, throw in some audio or video, links, etc. Multitouch gestures take care of the one page visible at a time issue. In a classroom or a meeting I rarely have the space to spread out multiple pages anyway. And syncing it to the network makes it damn near impossible for me to lose my notes. And since I have decent handwriting, HWR lets me import it into Word fairly painlessly.
It's not for everyone but it works damn well for me. I still don't think the OneNote interface is stellar, I actually preferred the way the old Newton MessagePad 2000 Notes app worked a bit more. The drawing cleanup functions were pretty slick too.
Being able to take notes with a Wacom on my tablet during meetings or class IS a game changer. Especially when I can mix my scribbles with drawings, photos of the whiteboard, change colors on a whim, draw diagrams, throw in some audio.... AND NOT LOSE THE NOTEBOOK. You can also e-mail your scribbles to others, access them from anywhere. Use HWR to import chunks of them into word. Study them on your phone while taking a shit, etc.
Taking notes on a post-it sized phone screen is useless but good note-taking apps on a tablet with an active stylus really are a game changer. Hell, I figured this out in 1994 on my Newton. Why are you reading Slashdot if you're that much of a luddite? Why not trade your PC in for a typewriter?
Nah, some of us actually made the mistake of buying one.... once. Never again. Accessories shouldn't have to be blessed by Apple and cost twice as much. And I like things like USB OTG and Bluetooth that is actually usable. And being able to interact with the world outside of the Apple ecosystem. Being able to run things like emulators without relying on jailbreaking and flaky Cydia crap is nice as well. And real access to the filesystem.
I want a handheld computing platform not a locked-down, shiny, overpriced, boutique appliance for rich kids and hipsters. Unfortunately I have to support a lot of people sucked into that ecosystem and this type of crap makes my life more difficult.
Bullshit. You know that smartphones existed long before the iPhone right? Both Palm and MS-based. Both very usable. They just weren't suitable for texting and driving and games weren't as cool due to lack of mobile 3D accelerators. Capacitive touch screens weren't cheap enough until about the time the iPhone was released as well. The iPhone was evolutionary, not revolutionary. We'd have Android regardless.
And don't forget DEC. They made the StrongARM SA110 which was the first high performance ARM. Hit 233MHz back when PC's were usually running at a similar clock speed. It's what made the later Apple Newton 2x00 series not suck.
I'm 34 and I definitely remember over-sized $1.00/minute brick and bag-phones when I was a little kid. Most people didn't have them but they were definitely around in more affluent areas. You are correct on smartphones. A "portable computer" was the size of a large briefcase and weighed 30+ lbs when I was little. Real laptops started to appear when I was about 8 or 9. Handheld 64-bit multi-core computers with hi-rez screens that fit into your pocket were pure science fiction.
Hell our first family computer ran at 1.79MHz and stored about 90KB on a floppy. And somehow I get both lumped in with Millennials and the tail end of Generation X depending on who you talk to yet my first online experience was through various local BBS's.
Just like ISP's need to be held liable for harboring terrorism by letting them pass encrypted e-mails. And Facebook should be liable for teenagers committing suicide over mean posts from their schoolmates.
Gun and ammo manufacturers shouldn't be sued for the devices they sell working exactly as advertised. They should be sued when they fail to go bang when I pull the trigger. It's not the manufacturers fault if you decide to use their products to commit a crime. It's like suing a spray paint distributor for illegal graffiti. It's asinine.
I actually found the 2013 Air to be incredibly easy to work on, there's just not much to it and the RAM is soldered to the board. They tear down very easy though with the exception of the LCD assembly. The WORST Apple products I ever worked on were the old iBook G3 and G4's. The white Macbooks were a PITA too, stare at it wrong and the case cracked.
The ultralight Retina Macbook looks pretty rough though. Most tablets really aren't that bad, tiny mutant screwdrivers and a guitar pick are usually all you need. Maybe a hairdryer for softening glue in some cases.
And a car analogy..... that would be like Ford bricking your car for using a non-OEM water pump or non-Ford spark plugs. Don't support this kind of stupidity.
I don't know about that. I'm a pretty competent laptop tech and did warranty service for a while a few years back.
Apple devices are quite serviceable, I replaced the logic board in my 2013 Macbook Air quite easily after a liquid spill. The LCD is not so tough either but the LCD is a sealed unit so you have to replace the entire assembly. I replaced the LCD in my company iPhone 5s a while back and it was a very easy repair. Apple is simply dicking over repair techs on purpose and the practice should be stopped. Small devices including phones and tablets nowadays are quite serviceable with very cheap appropriate tools, a steady hand and good eyeballs.
If *YOU* aren't competent enough to do such repairs that's nothing to be ashamed of, but don't support Apple and friends screwing over those of us that are and forcing people to trash perfectly good devices instead of giving me $50 to swap an LCD.
Apple tried his approach once, it was called HyperCard. It was neat but ultimately slow and ill-suited to doing anything remotely hardware related. Nice for quickie databases, silly games, contact lists, etc but ultimately useless for more advanced problems without a lot of effort, external libraries and actual coding. At that point you might as well had just written your code in Pascal or C, it'd be faster and less of a clusterfuck.
It was a cute introduction to slapping together GUI apps though and a good 2nd step from traditional BASIC.
Personally I think traditional boring line-numbered BASIC on an 8-bit is a good introduction to see if kids will want to go further with programming. A simple introduction to 6502 or Z80 ASM afterwards will let them write more advanced programs by embedding machine code routines in their BASIC programs and will give them more of an idea of how the computer actually works. If they get bored or don't feel like doing it anymore you'll know that computer science is not for them.
Will this finally make tube-based guitar amps more affordable?
It's sad when you can buy a 150W solid-state amp with 5 DSP's that fairly convincingly models the behavior of a dozen tube amps for $300 but a 15W tube amp can still run you $1,000 easy and will be a total 1-trick pony.
I'm surprised they don't already have something like this in place honestly.
Can't the NSA already do something similar over here in the US or is it much more disorganized? Either way, the future is getting pretty scary to think about. I hate to think about what my kids are going to have to put up with in their 30's if tech continues to advance at the current pace. 1984 wasn't supposed to be an operations manual. It was supposed to be a warning.
She was a big supporter of TPP until she flipped recently for the purpose of vote whoring. She'll flip again. Her and her husband supported that whole "Clipper Chip" fiasco and she is clearly anti-encryption. She supports criminalizing "hate speech". She supported CA's draconian 3-strikes BS. She absolutely hates the 2nd amendment. She's stated in the past that she'd happily engage in gun confiscation given half a chance.
Basically, she's an anti-liberty statist who has absolutely no qualms against screwing over anyone and everyone when it's convenient for her.
And don't think I'm saying Trump is better, he's not and I don't believe for a second he'll do anything about situations like TFA states. There's a reason the Libertarians are polling in the double digits and that can only be a good thing.
Yep and the corrupt oligarch who flip-flops on every single issue every time she's handed a big wad of cash is any better.
I was willing to give Bernie a chance but not Hillary. Not ever. She's insane and completely fake. She's just as bad a narcissistic psychopath as Trump if not worse. Trump is an idiot and will be completely ineffective as a president as well as being stonewalled at every turn. I can deal with 4 years of zero progress and he'll help further the destruction of the GOP allowing a 3rd party to eventually rise. I'm OK with that.
Clinton OTOH I absolutely KNOW will try to strip me of my rights. Trump will leave me alone and his crazier ideas will never pass. If Trump wins, it's because the Dems and media screwed Bernie over while labeling him as an unelectable commie.
Me? I'm back to my usual Libertarian vote but I was willing to put up with the Social Democrat who was reasonably honest. Gary Johnson 2016! #FeelTheJohnson
Infringement != Theft. If you're watching the video, it's already being downloaded to your machine. Youtube doesn't get to dictate what you can do with data already in your possession. It's like outlawing VCR's with record functionality. Which is stupid. If the content is available for free, why should I have to waste bandwidth every time I want to watch it? I don't care if stupid provisions have been added to the CFAA making website TOS's enforceable. I'd just host the project overseas at that point if it were me.
You will never eliminate software like this. Adapt your business model or die.
In the Idiocracy movie, they had TV's with like 500 ads surrounding a tiny viewport with the actual content in the center. That movie was more prophetic than I could have imagined.
If I want to publish a cartoon of Jesus and Mohammad having gay sex with Carl Sagan that's my prerogative and my right. Don't like it? Don't look at it.
Not that I would because
A.) I can't draw B.) I'm generally not an asshole until provoked
This is a serious slippery slope. Even saying "The God of Abraham does not exist and is simply a bronze-age Jewish mythology" can be labeled as hate speech. Even if that is a core part of my [non]religious beliefs.
I'm not going to tapdance around people's feelings under threat of prison and censor myself. Seriously. Prison? For hurting someone's wee little feelings? A term as long as you would serve for physically beating the shit out of someone? SJW's are going way too far in the EU and we need to stop them from getting a foothold here. If someone is deeply offended by the fact that I criticize/mock their religion, oppose them influencing politics... FUCK'EM.... they NEED to be offended. If mocking superstition, the violence it brings and the chilling effect it has on reasonable discourse is hateful, then I'm proud to be a bigot.
At least here in the US if someone tries to kill me over my beliefs, opinions or speech I can legally blow their brains out in self defense. You guys in the EU are screwed and we're not far behind you unfortunately.
Hating people isn't illegal. Making people mad isn't illegal. Losing control and beating/killing someone because you can't control your rage *IS* illegal. You have no inherent right to not be offended in a free society. Period.
I'm glad Google won, because if they had lost you can bet your ass SCO would rise from the dead with a vengeance suing everyone from Google to Cisco/Linksys and anyone else who dared use embedded Linux.
Are you willing to pay HUNDREDS in insurance per month? Often they don't give you many options to choose from for uninsured/underinsured coverage as well.
Nobody EVER anticipates needing $250,000 to $1,000,000 to cover their own injuries in a car accident and most of the time, you really don't. The minimum will usually cover it for most situations. It's rare that dumbasses will slam into you at 107mph. Most of the time, when this happens to someone all they really need is $10,000 for their family to have a quick closed casket funeral and bury them.
Before you say Medicare and Disability..... Medicare only covers about 80% and it usually takes at least a year to get disability and medicare and usually there's hearings and lawyers involved. He probably wouldn't get Medicaid either if his wife is working.
Meanwhile, he could lose his health insurance, house and car because he can't work.... and his wife may crack under the stress of trying to take care of someone with brain damage and the financial strain of covering him under her health insurance which her employer won't kick out extra for.
But we don't want socialized health care in this country cuz.... ya know.... freedom.... and it could never happen to *ME*.
If you have a choice between trying to sue SnapChat or not getting the care you need to live.... you would sue SnapChat. In countries with socialized medicine this would be less of a problem but here in the US, the victim is responsible for payment or anything but an ER visit and they tell you to f**k off after a couple visits where you can't pay.
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Touchscreens suck but with a decent stylus you can make do for very simple things. It's like having a pen that's always low on ink and only one page visible at a time.
Onenote on a tablet with an active stylus like a Wacom w/ an erase function is actually quite powerful once you get used to it. You can also mix photos of the whiteboard in with your scribbles, throw in some audio or video, links, etc. Multitouch gestures take care of the one page visible at a time issue. In a classroom or a meeting I rarely have the space to spread out multiple pages anyway. And syncing it to the network makes it damn near impossible for me to lose my notes. And since I have decent handwriting, HWR lets me import it into Word fairly painlessly.
It's not for everyone but it works damn well for me. I still don't think the OneNote interface is stellar, I actually preferred the way the old Newton MessagePad 2000 Notes app worked a bit more. The drawing cleanup functions were pretty slick too.
Being able to take notes with a Wacom on my tablet during meetings or class IS a game changer. Especially when I can mix my scribbles with drawings, photos of the whiteboard, change colors on a whim, draw diagrams, throw in some audio.... AND NOT LOSE THE NOTEBOOK. You can also e-mail your scribbles to others, access them from anywhere. Use HWR to import chunks of them into word. Study them on your phone while taking a shit, etc.
Taking notes on a post-it sized phone screen is useless but good note-taking apps on a tablet with an active stylus really are a game changer. Hell, I figured this out in 1994 on my Newton. Why are you reading Slashdot if you're that much of a luddite? Why not trade your PC in for a typewriter?
Nah, some of us actually made the mistake of buying one.... once. Never again. Accessories shouldn't have to be blessed by Apple and cost twice as much. And I like things like USB OTG and Bluetooth that is actually usable. And being able to interact with the world outside of the Apple ecosystem. Being able to run things like emulators without relying on jailbreaking and flaky Cydia crap is nice as well. And real access to the filesystem.
I want a handheld computing platform not a locked-down, shiny, overpriced, boutique appliance for rich kids and hipsters. Unfortunately I have to support a lot of people sucked into that ecosystem and this type of crap makes my life more difficult.
So the Samsung i300 and i500 PalmOS phones I had were hallucinations? Or the handful of Windows CE smartphones that were around? Or the Treo?
I'd say your history is full of lies.
Bullshit. You know that smartphones existed long before the iPhone right? Both Palm and MS-based. Both very usable. They just weren't suitable for texting and driving and games weren't as cool due to lack of mobile 3D accelerators. Capacitive touch screens weren't cheap enough until about the time the iPhone was released as well. The iPhone was evolutionary, not revolutionary. We'd have Android regardless.
And don't forget DEC. They made the StrongARM SA110 which was the first high performance ARM. Hit 233MHz back when PC's were usually running at a similar clock speed. It's what made the later Apple Newton 2x00 series not suck.
I'm 34 and I definitely remember over-sized $1.00/minute brick and bag-phones when I was a little kid. Most people didn't have them but they were definitely around in more affluent areas. You are correct on smartphones. A "portable computer" was the size of a large briefcase and weighed 30+ lbs when I was little. Real laptops started to appear when I was about 8 or 9. Handheld 64-bit multi-core computers with hi-rez screens that fit into your pocket were pure science fiction.
Hell our first family computer ran at 1.79MHz and stored about 90KB on a floppy. And somehow I get both lumped in with Millennials and the tail end of Generation X depending on who you talk to yet my first online experience was through various local BBS's.
Just like ISP's need to be held liable for harboring terrorism by letting them pass encrypted e-mails. And Facebook should be liable for teenagers committing suicide over mean posts from their schoolmates.
Gun and ammo manufacturers shouldn't be sued for the devices they sell working exactly as advertised. They should be sued when they fail to go bang when I pull the trigger. It's not the manufacturers fault if you decide to use their products to commit a crime. It's like suing a spray paint distributor for illegal graffiti. It's asinine.
I actually found the 2013 Air to be incredibly easy to work on, there's just not much to it and the RAM is soldered to the board. They tear down very easy though with the exception of the LCD assembly. The WORST Apple products I ever worked on were the old iBook G3 and G4's. The white Macbooks were a PITA too, stare at it wrong and the case cracked.
The ultralight Retina Macbook looks pretty rough though. Most tablets really aren't that bad, tiny mutant screwdrivers and a guitar pick are usually all you need. Maybe a hairdryer for softening glue in some cases.
And a car analogy..... that would be like Ford bricking your car for using a non-OEM water pump or non-Ford spark plugs. Don't support this kind of stupidity.
I don't know about that. I'm a pretty competent laptop tech and did warranty service for a while a few years back.
Apple devices are quite serviceable, I replaced the logic board in my 2013 Macbook Air quite easily after a liquid spill. The LCD is not so tough either but the LCD is a sealed unit so you have to replace the entire assembly. I replaced the LCD in my company iPhone 5s a while back and it was a very easy repair. Apple is simply dicking over repair techs on purpose and the practice should be stopped. Small devices including phones and tablets nowadays are quite serviceable with very cheap appropriate tools, a steady hand and good eyeballs.
If *YOU* aren't competent enough to do such repairs that's nothing to be ashamed of, but don't support Apple and friends screwing over those of us that are and forcing people to trash perfectly good devices instead of giving me $50 to swap an LCD.
Apple tried his approach once, it was called HyperCard. It was neat but ultimately slow and ill-suited to doing anything remotely hardware related. Nice for quickie databases, silly games, contact lists, etc but ultimately useless for more advanced problems without a lot of effort, external libraries and actual coding. At that point you might as well had just written your code in Pascal or C, it'd be faster and less of a clusterfuck.
It was a cute introduction to slapping together GUI apps though and a good 2nd step from traditional BASIC.
Personally I think traditional boring line-numbered BASIC on an 8-bit is a good introduction to see if kids will want to go further with programming. A simple introduction to 6502 or Z80 ASM afterwards will let them write more advanced programs by embedding machine code routines in their BASIC programs and will give them more of an idea of how the computer actually works. If they get bored or don't feel like doing it anymore you'll know that computer science is not for them.
Will this finally make tube-based guitar amps more affordable?
It's sad when you can buy a 150W solid-state amp with 5 DSP's that fairly convincingly models the behavior of a dozen tube amps for $300 but a 15W tube amp can still run you $1,000 easy and will be a total 1-trick pony.
I'm surprised they don't already have something like this in place honestly.
Can't the NSA already do something similar over here in the US or is it much more disorganized? Either way, the future is getting pretty scary to think about. I hate to think about what my kids are going to have to put up with in their 30's if tech continues to advance at the current pace. 1984 wasn't supposed to be an operations manual. It was supposed to be a warning.
Wow.... you really don't know a joke when you see one do you? That is certainly not the official slogan heh
She was a big supporter of TPP until she flipped recently for the purpose of vote whoring. She'll flip again. Her and her husband supported that whole "Clipper Chip" fiasco and she is clearly anti-encryption. She supports criminalizing "hate speech". She supported CA's draconian 3-strikes BS. She absolutely hates the 2nd amendment. She's stated in the past that she'd happily engage in gun confiscation given half a chance.
Basically, she's an anti-liberty statist who has absolutely no qualms against screwing over anyone and everyone when it's convenient for her.
And don't think I'm saying Trump is better, he's not and I don't believe for a second he'll do anything about situations like TFA states. There's a reason the Libertarians are polling in the double digits and that can only be a good thing.
Yep and the corrupt oligarch who flip-flops on every single issue every time she's handed a big wad of cash is any better.
I was willing to give Bernie a chance but not Hillary. Not ever. She's insane and completely fake. She's just as bad a narcissistic psychopath as Trump if not worse. Trump is an idiot and will be completely ineffective as a president as well as being stonewalled at every turn. I can deal with 4 years of zero progress and he'll help further the destruction of the GOP allowing a 3rd party to eventually rise. I'm OK with that.
Clinton OTOH I absolutely KNOW will try to strip me of my rights. Trump will leave me alone and his crazier ideas will never pass. If Trump wins, it's because the Dems and media screwed Bernie over while labeling him as an unelectable commie.
Me? I'm back to my usual Libertarian vote but I was willing to put up with the Social Democrat who was reasonably honest. Gary Johnson 2016! #FeelTheJohnson
Infringement != Theft. If you're watching the video, it's already being downloaded to your machine. Youtube doesn't get to dictate what you can do with data already in your possession. It's like outlawing VCR's with record functionality. Which is stupid. If the content is available for free, why should I have to waste bandwidth every time I want to watch it? I don't care if stupid provisions have been added to the CFAA making website TOS's enforceable. I'd just host the project overseas at that point if it were me.
You will never eliminate software like this. Adapt your business model or die.
Thankfully, that defense works for firearms manufacturers.
In the Idiocracy movie, they had TV's with like 500 ads surrounding a tiny viewport with the actual content in the center. That movie was more prophetic than I could have imagined.
If I want to publish a cartoon of Jesus and Mohammad having gay sex with Carl Sagan that's my prerogative and my right. Don't like it? Don't look at it.
Not that I would because
A.) I can't draw
B.) I'm generally not an asshole until provoked
This is a serious slippery slope. Even saying "The God of Abraham does not exist and is simply a bronze-age Jewish mythology" can be labeled as hate speech. Even if that is a core part of my [non]religious beliefs.
I'm not going to tapdance around people's feelings under threat of prison and censor myself. Seriously. Prison? For hurting someone's wee little feelings? A term as long as you would serve for physically beating the shit out of someone? SJW's are going way too far in the EU and we need to stop them from getting a foothold here. If someone is deeply offended by the fact that I criticize/mock their religion, oppose them influencing politics... FUCK'EM.... they NEED to be offended. If mocking superstition, the violence it brings and the chilling effect it has on reasonable discourse is hateful, then I'm proud to be a bigot.
At least here in the US if someone tries to kill me over my beliefs, opinions or speech I can legally blow their brains out in self defense. You guys in the EU are screwed and we're not far behind you unfortunately.
Hating people isn't illegal. Making people mad isn't illegal. Losing control and beating/killing someone because you can't control your rage *IS* illegal. You have no inherent right to not be offended in a free society. Period.
I'm glad Google won, because if they had lost you can bet your ass SCO would rise from the dead with a vengeance suing everyone from Google to Cisco/Linksys and anyone else who dared use embedded Linux.
Are you willing to pay HUNDREDS in insurance per month? Often they don't give you many options to choose from for uninsured/underinsured coverage as well.
Nobody EVER anticipates needing $250,000 to $1,000,000 to cover their own injuries in a car accident and most of the time, you really don't. The minimum will usually cover it for most situations. It's rare that dumbasses will slam into you at 107mph. Most of the time, when this happens to someone all they really need is $10,000 for their family to have a quick closed casket funeral and bury them.
Before you say Medicare and Disability..... Medicare only covers about 80% and it usually takes at least a year to get disability and medicare and usually there's hearings and lawyers involved. He probably wouldn't get Medicaid either if his wife is working.
Meanwhile, he could lose his health insurance, house and car because he can't work.... and his wife may crack under the stress of trying to take care of someone with brain damage and the financial strain of covering him under her health insurance which her employer won't kick out extra for.
But we don't want socialized health care in this country cuz.... ya know.... freedom.... and it could never happen to *ME*.
If you have a choice between trying to sue SnapChat or not getting the care you need to live.... you would sue SnapChat. In countries with socialized medicine this would be less of a problem but here in the US, the victim is responsible for payment or anything but an ER visit and they tell you to f**k off after a couple visits where you can't pay.